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The visible characteristic in an organism is known as:

Phenotype

It is defined as visible characteristics of an individual which occur from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

Which of the following may be used to obtain an F₂ generation?

The following results were obtained by a scientist who crossed the F₁ generation of pure-breeding parents for round and wrinkled seeds.

Dominant trait -Round seeds

Recessive trait -Wrinkled seeds

No. of F₂ offspring -7524

From these results, it can be concluded that the actual number of round seeds he obtained was:

The exchange of genetic material takes place in:

A cross between a tall plant (TT) and short plant (tt) resulted in progeny that were all tall plants because :